FRA and Yad Vashem Launch Educators' Toolkit

On 9 November, FRA and Yad Vashem launched a new educational initiative called the Toolkit on the Holocaust and Human Rights Education in the EU.

This education project was initiated in 2008 in order to create an online pedagogical tool on the Holocaust and human rights education.

The toolkit was developed in response to an educational gap expressed by both educators and students.  By examining the connections between Holocaust and human rights education, the toolkit provides methodological approaches for teaching these topics and includes useful content for teaching.

The toolkit is a practical online guide for educators who wish to develop teaching projects that link the Holocaust and the protection of human rights. Projects and activities in the toolkit combine teaching history lessons, developing empathy with the victims, connecting the knowledge of the Holocaust with that of human rights, deriving implications for today's world, and empowering students to respect human rights. Sample content ranges from Austrian high school students learning about the antisemitic portrayal of Jews in the Nazi propaganda paper Der Stürmer to Slovenian middle school students learning about the Holocaust as a case study in an effort to become active participants in the process of learning about human rights.

Additionally, the toolkit contains 11 posters created by design students from Europe and abroad as part of an international competition sponsored by the International Task Force for Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. These projects aim to inspire teachers across the EU to use the toolkit as a basis for exploring and discussing the connections between the Holocaust and human rights and values.

The Toolkit on the Holocaust and Human Rights Education in the EU can be found by clicking on the following link.